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Meanings of gastropod in English
A class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes.
Synonyms
Examples for "univalve"
Examples for "univalve"
1
Save the univalve's operculum and slice it off the muscle that holds it.
2
A shell pin made from the columella of a large univalve.
3
There are three varieties, spiral, univalve, and bivalve.
4
It was easy to see that the stones are thin and porous opercula, which have formed part of small univalve shells.
5
There was one imported shell that we did not value much, it was so abundant-thefreckled univalve they called a "prop."
Usage of gastropod in English
1
The gastropod wears larger versions of the scales on its exposed foot.
2
As the sun set, the humidity in the house increased, improving conditions for gastropod travel.
3
They represented half a billion years of gastropod evolution.
4
Cupping the fossil cast of a gastropod in her hands, she stared at it intently.
5
Abalone is the only gastropod that can be grilled.
6
She saw the gastropod give up chasing the balloon and stop next to her husband.
7
Jeremy's shell coiled to the left instead of the right - making him one very rare gastropod.
8
The idiot glowered at the gastropod enemy.
9
It was a copy of a delicate gastropod, made of rice paper & it dissolved when you washed it.
10
Stasis in three genetically well-defined extant species of the gastropod Amalda from New Zealand based on 662 fossil specimens.
11
Below him she could see the gastropod, tracking them across the sands, still close enough to be a danger.
12
Ayla rubbed the four scars on her leg as she looked at another object: the fossil cast of a gastropod.
13
They are officially a 'semi-slug', and like a paua are a gastropod but the resemblance of the shell is a coincidence.
14
Comparisons are drawn with general distribution patterns of monoamines and with identified monoaminergic cells and cell populations found in other gastropod species.
15
The snail, called the scaly-foot gastropod, was discovered nearly a decade ago living in a hydrothermal vent field in the Indian Ocean.
16
But the snail's organic layer is surprisingly thick, and no other gastropod has ever been shown to use iron sulfide in its shell.
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Gastropod through the time